Setting up for local development

[LxLasso]

I'm wondering how best to set this up for local development?

With our custom modules I have their repos checked out into /DesktopModules but this project has two modules .. do you check this repo out to be /DesktopModules or are you doing something completely different?

[johnhenley]

Hi @LxLasso
The repo needs to be outside of the DNN and DesktopModules.

I have it here:

There is also a DNN site in the same folder:

When building, build first for debug, then for release, and it will create the install packages in the install/module folder of the DNN site:

[johnhenley]

Bugs? Impossible! Seriously, if you have small list, please create an issue (you don't have to create separate issues unless you want to; you can just put them all into a single issue and I'll separate them out). That way we can see if some might already be fixed (sometimes I see something and just fix it if it's small).

[johnhenley]

If you need to debug into DNN code, download and install the DNN symbols package into your (test) site, in VS, DISABLE "just my code" in the debugger options and deselect the Nuget server option in the debug symbol locations.

[LxLasso]

Fair enough, I shouldn't be sitting on a secret list of bugs. I'll create issues for them!

Having said that.. I'm getting a lot of "File Not Found" warnings during release build. I think it's the Zip step on line 178 of ModulePackage.targets. Apparently ResourcesContent contains some files that cannot be found. Is it a sign of trouble with my setup?

[LxLasso]

Actually those warnings probably don't matter, the resulting installation package sizes matches the latest published exactly.

New question! :-D Is there a more clever way of debugging than building in Debug, copying the binaries over to the website and attaching to w3wp?

[johnhenley]

New question! :-D Is there a more clever way of debugging than building in Debug, copying the binaries over to the website and attaching to w3wp?

Not that I've found. I usually just keep two file explorer windows open so I can copy from one to the other.